Indonesia says it has reclaimed 4+ million hectares used for plantations and mining inside protected forest areas, after a year-old task force cracked down on illegality.

Seizures exceeded targets by 400%, raising questions about how much oil palm is illegal. $136M in fines were collected — but the fate of the land, and the money, remains unclear.

by Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-says-4-million-hectares-of-plantation-mining-lands-reclaimed-in-crackdown/

#news #deforestation #forests #illegallogging #illegalmining #landconflict #palmoil

‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers

The reclaiming of Darién national park should help protect one of the region’s largest carbon sinks and the Indigenous groups and many animal species that live there. It also comes as tropical forests across Central America are collapsing.

#DarienPark #Panama #TropicalForest #IllegalLogging #Poaching #envvironment #Biodiversity

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/25/they-are-scared-of-us-now-how-one-tropical-forest-turned-the-tide-on-loggers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Thời gian gần đây, loài cây rừng mán đỉa – trước đây ít được quan tâm – bỗng trở nên "hot" khi thương lái thu mua với giá lên đến 3 triệu đồng/kg. Người dân tại Quảng Trị liên tục đổ xô vào rừng để săn lùng, khai thác. Trước tình trạng này, lực lượng Kiểm lâm tỉnh Quảng Trị đã vào cuộc để kiểm tra, kiểm soát và ngăn chặn nạn khai thác gỗ trái phép, bảo vệ rừng tự nhiên.

#MánĐỉa #QuảngTrị #KhaiThácGỗ #BảoVệRừng #KiểmLâm #TinTứcViệtNam #IllegalLogging #QuangTri #ForestProtection #WildlifeTrade

AJK government vows zero tolerance against illegal logging

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1408265/ajk-government-vows-zero-tolerance-against-illegal-logging/

Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?

https://drilled.media/news/ethanol-story1

Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations…

#Brazil #ClimateFund #Diverted #BigAg #Ethanol #EnvironmentalViolators #COP30 #AgTrap #BNDES #Deforestation #IncreasedGHGs #IncreasedPesticides #GMO #Monoculture #USfinancing #IllegalLogging

"We need to fall in love again with the places where we live. We don't have to travel the world to fight for nature elsewhere, fight for nature where you live. Fall in love with the place, and think about all the layers of what falling in love means" --Gabriel Paun, Agent Green

#AgentGreen #Romania #IllegalLogging #AncientForestEurope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYVGalSJz0k

authorities have identified Cao Van Duyen as the person who cut down dozens of trees in Thanh Hoa. Duyen admitted to illegally harvesting timber while he was entrusted with forest management.

Vụ việc đốn hạ hàng chục cây gỗ trái phép tại Thanh Hóa đã xác định đối tượng Cao Văn Duyên là người trực tiếp gây ra. Ông Duyên khai nhận đã tự ý khai thác gỗ khi được giao trông coi rừng.

#ThanhHoa #PhaRung #KhaiThacGo #IllegalLogging #Vietnam #ThanhHóa #PháRừng #KhaiThácGỗ #ViệtNam

https://vietnamnet.